"Since that great Eastern power was able to discover the mystery within, we are smarter, stronger, and more technologically advanced than them, so we will definitely be able to figure it out too! I order you all to beat them to it and uncover the secret they are hiding!"
This command spread tacitly among the major Western powers, though none of them announced it publicly.
Outwardly, they maintained an attitude of detached indifference, at most probing each other verbally, while secretly beginning to allocate funds, setting up high-end physics and chemistry talent laboratories, and purchasing equipment in preparation to launch an all-out research effort.
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